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Environmental Values 17(2008): 259-284. doi: 10.3197/096327108X303882
ABSTRACT
Ecosystems are increasingly characterised as goods and services to allow their valuation in monetary terms. This follows an orthodox economic approach to environmental values, but is also being undertaken by ecologists and conservation biologists. There then appears a lack of clarity and debate as to the model of human behaviour, specific values and decision process being adopted. Arguments for ecosystems service valuation are critically appraised and the case for a model leading to value pluralism is presented. The outcome is to identify the need for value articulating processes which involve open deliberative judgment rather than instantaneously stated preferences, concealed expert opinion and global cost-benefit analysis.
KEYWORDS
Biodiversity, ecosystems services, economic valuation, judgement
REFERENCES to other articles in Environmental Values:
An Inquiry Concerning the Acceptance of Intrinsic Value Theories of Nature. W.F. Butler and T.G. Acott
Acceptability of Compensation in the Siting of Waste Disposal Facilities. Edmundo Claro
Ethics and Values in Environmental Policy: The Said and the UNCED Paul P. Craig, Harold Glasser and Willett Kempton
Editorial: One wants and one wants not to want Alan Holland
Happiness and the Good Life. John O'Neill
Ethical Motives and Charitable Contributions in Contingent Valuation: Empirical Evidence from Social Psychology and Economics Clive L. Spash
CITATIONS in other Environmental Values articles
Happiness and the Good Life. John O'Neill
Ecosystem Services and Sacred Natural Sites: Reconciling Material and Non-material Values in Nature Conservation.Shonil A. Bhagwat
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